Ciao ragazzi! Welcome to live coverage of the second rest day - sorry, I mean stage 10 - of the Giro d'Italia: a pan-flat 145km ride from Ravenna to Modena. If this doesn't end in a bunch sprint then the Pope doesn't s*** in the woods etc.

Scotson is back on the front. The gap is 2'15". Vincenzo Nibali's Bahrain Merida team have assembled near the front. Don't worry, they're not planning an ambush, just keeping their man out of trouble. The Shark is the best placed rider to cause Roglic some bother in the mountains: he's currently 1'44" down on the Slovenian but he's won five Grand Tours before and Roglic has only raced three.

If we look at form, today's finish should be like this: 1. Ewan, 2. Ackermann, 3. Viviani, 4. Demare, 5. Moschetti. But I think it will be like this: 1. Viviani, 2. Ackermann, 3. Ewan, 4. Demare, 5. Moschetti.

Many apologies but there are still 100km of this to go. QuickStep currently on the front with Pieter Serry putting in a big shift. Behind the Belgian is Groupama's Miles Scotson. Serry, incidentally, is 13th on GC which makes him something of a domestique de luxe for Viviani. Indeed, he's one place higher than QuickStep's man for the GC, Bob Jungels. Scotson, meanwjhile, is 1h23min down in 156th.

The average speed of the peloton today has been a slow 37.5km/h. The two escapees have 2'45" on the pack.

And a little visual reminder of that moment...

Seeing all that snow on the Gavia makes me think of the 2015 edition of the Giro when we thought Steven Kruijswijk had it all sown up, only for the Dutchman to crash into a bank of snow on the Colle dell'Agnello and lose the maglia rosa to Esteban Chaves on stage 19, with Vincenzo Nibali - the winner that day in Risoul - completing the comeback in stage 20. Primoz Roglic, a teammate of Kruijswijk's at Jumbo-Visma, will not feel he has this in the bag by any stretch...

Next week the Giro is due to tackle the Passo Gavia, the site of Andy Hampsten's snowy ride into pink in 1988. Snow is again on the cards, with a huge snow wall currently lining the pass. They need to dig the summit clear of the white stuff and there are fears that the stage may have to by-pass the Gavia and do a double ascent of the Mortirolo instead. But apparently they're working against the clock to ensure the original plan happens...

That tempo from the teams of the sprinters has seen the gap come down a little for our two kamikaze escapees, who are really taking one for their wildcard teams here. "A long time out for very little gain," in the words of Sean Kelly. The gap is 3'30".

There was a big set-back for Simon Yates on Sunday after he came home 3'11" down on Primoz Roglic in a time trial which should have suited his strengths. But this is a long race and we have not yet had any of the five summit finishes. His Mitchelton-Scott DS is not getting too worried just yet...

Here's what the Eurosport experts think...

My money is on the Italian national champion Viviani to put things right and get on the score sheet. His morale took a dent from that DQ last week but the rest day would have given him a chance to recalibrate and set the marker back to zero. That said, Ackermann has looked so strong - and his Bora-Hansgrohe train is impressive - while Caleb Ewan is very much in the ascendancy.

Groupama-FDJ and Deceuninck-QuickStep have now come to the front of the peloton to regulate the gap, which is up to four minutes. Both teams are still looking for wins for their sprinters Arnaud Demare and Elia Viviani. Today and tomorrow's flat stages offer the ideal opportunity to put that right.

A reminder of the four classification leaders, from left to right: Italy's Giulio Ciccone in the blue jersey, compatriot Valerio Conti in the pink, Germany's Pascal Ackermann in the maglia ciclamino and Frenchman Nans Peters looking very proud in his all-white youth get-up.

Ravenna looked pretty resplendent in the sunshine this morning... Makes a change to have no rain on this Giro!

Here's a stat for you: today's 145km stage features just 150m of vertical gain. The highest point in the entire stage is the finish at Modena, which is 35km above sea level.

With the peloton soft pedalling like your dad on a Sunday spin, the two-man break extends its lead to 3'30" after 10km or 'racing'.

Japan's Hatsuyama was the lone breakaway in stage 3 last week, when Elia Viviani was adjudged to have deviated in the sprint and the win was given to Fernando Gaviria accordingly.